Palazzo Biscari is located in the historic center of Catania. The building dates back to the seventeenth century and was commissioned by the Paternò Castello family of the Biscari princes. The Palace still preserves the original decorations and environments: the feudal hall, the ballroom, the apartments of the princess and the room of Don Quixote. Today the building houses the homonymous Museum with the archaeological collection of Ignazio Paternò Castello, a great archaeologist, scholar and lover of the arts in general. The prince had placed his collection in a wing specially built in the palace, where it remained until 1927. A large part of the collection is now on display at the Castello di Ursino in Catania. The museum has ancient origins and was founded in 1758 by the Paternò Castello family. The collection includes sculptures, mosaics, vases, epigraphs, bronzes, terracotta, a medal collection, natural history objects and physics tools. Surely the sculptural section is the richest with, for example, the "Torso Biscari" found during excavations in the Convent of Sant'Agostino in Catania. Other objects of great interest to the princes are of sacred art, minor arts, oriental manufactures and medieval art.